True story – in the Halloween costume post I did earlier today, I was considering adding Jenny McCarthy as an example of the costume trend I despise – women dressing sexy and calling it a costume. I mean, this is just wearing lingerie, there’s nothing Haloweenie (that’s with an “ie” I decided, not a “y,” blame Tim Burton) or creative about it. It’s an excuse to show T&A, which basically explains Jenny’s entire existence so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. So I skipped her, because it was lame and predictable, as is this accompanying story about Jenny that I’m choosing to run. It turns out Jenny did have a theme for her costume other than “stripper.” She was a cougar! Oh how clever. Jenny’s 40th birthday is today, and she was out celebrating it. Jenny explained to People that she’s single and needs to “learn to love myself completely before I love someone else.” What better way to do that than to don a fun, inconspicuous costume that doesn’t showcase her budget boob job? Oh wait.
Though Thursday marks her 40th birthday, the Playboy cover girl told PEOPLE, “I sadly have the same thought that my parents say every birthday which is, ‘I don’t feel that old.’ So, I have decided to make my mindset 40 is the new 15. Okay, fine – the new 22.”
Dressed as a “cougar” – a joke, considering her age – the ever-youthful McCarthy headed to Las Vegas with her sister (also dressed as a cougar) Wednesday to celebrate her birthday at Gallery Nightclub.
But one person you won’t see with her any time soon is a boyfriend, though she has singled out a familiar face that she’s “courting.”
“I have not met anyone yet that is a potential love,” she said. “I have myself under construction. I’ll let you know when the roads are clear and reopened.”
Since splitting in August with Chicago Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, her boyfriend of five months, McCarthy still has an open mind about finding romance.
“I’m in love with falling in love. I have come to realize, though, that I need to practice what I preach and learn to love myself completely before I love someone else,” she said. “So, I’ve been courting myself and having a great time with me, myself and I.”
Jenny is only flattering herself if she thinks she has the mindset of a 22 year-old. She was accurate the first time when she said “15.” When I was 22 I knew better than to wear a corset without anything over it. But it’s Halloween so she gets a pass, right? I’m thinking Jenny is going to fall in love with the next guy she meets who is into it, not when she’s “ready,” but I could be wrong. Maybe she’ll wait a whole month or two.
I have to hand it to her, she does look good here in that overprocessed way of hers. Also, someone spray tan airbrushed her boob cleavage, didn’t they? Are you seeing that too?
Photo credit: WENN and FameFlynet
BOOBS TOO CLOSE TO THE CAMERA. AGH MY EYES.
I see stretch marks on her fake boobs.
I see that her bra is way too small. Is this a new trend or something? Yesterday it was Miss Greene, today this “cougar”-sexkitten-someone. It´s not healthy!
Trend or not we see too much.
I thought that I was the only one that noticed that. You can see all the blue veins too. Her boob-skin is stretched beyond the limit with those baseballs in her chest.
I have stretch marks on my real boobs
I too have stretch marks. Although she has fake boobs, she still stretched from growing her real boobs just like everyone else
Noticed that too – the “airbrush tan” didn’t cover it.
totally! so glad someone else noticed- its not spray tan- its friggin nasty stretch marks from her enormous leathery budget breasts. Just about lost my lunch.
I just don’t see how her and Jim Carrey were together for so long….
And I’m 22 and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing that on Halloween.
She seemed to have taken a break from behaving this way when she was with him.
I agree about Jim. I wonder why they split…I used to really like her, but not really anymore. She used to make it all about her son, but it seems like she’s getting desperate. She’s wearing a ring on her ring finger…her hands don’t look 15 years old.
Like Bradley Cooper would have any clue what to do with the like of that!
You know what helps celebrate the sexuality and beauty over women over the age of 35, Jenny? Not calling yourself a cougar.
You know, in general, I really hate to blame women for falling victim to a culture that consistently and repeatedly treats our bodies and our appearance through the male gaze and treats us like objects for male consumption. In general, I really try to avoid blaming women for the inherant sexism of our culture.
But you know, when women PARTICIPATE in it…it just really drives me up the wall.
I’m not mad she’s wearing lingerie. I’m mad that she (like many other women) felt the need to justify it by calling herself a cougar.
Joke or not, “cougar” is an offensive, sexist term.
There is no male equivalent. We don’t feel the need to justify men being sexy or attractive over the age of 40. We don’t condemn men for having sex with women who are 10 years younger. WE don’t even notice! No one even blinks.
The word “cougar” does not help women. It’s part of the system that holds them back and perpetuates this notion that men continue to age and just get sexier with age while women over the age of 40 are “desperate” or gross if they enjoy their bodies, sex or :gasp:: dare to have sex with a younger man.
Ladies…please just stop with the cougar nonsense. That word is not helping anyone. Show off your bodies. Enjoy sex. Do it all. THAT is how you help women over 40 have great sex. But please stop it with the cougar crap. End rant.
Amen.
Thanks for this, Elle. The term “cougar” really bothers me, but I couldn’t quite figure out why. I think you nailed it!
It’s an awful, sexist term that culture has convinced US AS WOMEN to joke about. It’s one of those things that we joke about because if we don’t joke about it it’s so intensely offensive that I could cry.
I’m 29 years old and I freaking hate it. My 30 year old girlfriend married a 25 year old a few weeks ago and she was jokingly calling herself a cougar and I was like, “DO NOT DO IT. STOP STOP STOP.”
The sooner we eviscerate this idea that women “age” worse than men the less it will be our reality.
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Very well said. Couldn’t agree with you more.
Cheers to this post!!! love it
**applause**
Beautifully said! As a 40+ woman with a younger 2nd husband…I find it not really offensive but puzzling why someone would call me a “cougar”. I just call myself lucky.
Of course! As you should! Happy marriages–no matter what age you are—are something to celebrate if that is what we choose.
I’m 29 years old and I feel strongly the the way women over 40 are treated is unfair and disgusting.
No one asks men to apologize for their sexuality over the age of 40. No one acts like Jon Hamm or Ewan McGregor or Brad Pitt became gross after they turned 40.
Yet, God forbid, a woman in her late 30’s in Hollywood play opposite a younger man. It’s news worthy. Why? It’s disgusting. And it will only change when people start to not stand for it anymore.
Thank you, both Elle & Ginger! I met my 2nd hubs before this whole “cougar thing” was a thing, and he’s 7 years younger than me. We’ve been married for over 11 years now, and while we’ve had our issues, I’ve resented the “cougar” label that came about AFTER our relationship/marriage.
Thank you for saying what I wanted to say with less profanity and more eloquence. Saying “40 is the new 15” just says that a person is not okay with aging.
I wouldn’t give ANYTHING to be 15 again! 30 ROCKED, but 15 SUCKED!!
Dressing as a “cougar” pun intended, might have been funny/clever a few years ago. Now, it’s just kinda sad.
Just what her son needs – a mom who wears underwear in public and aspires to have the mindset of a 15 year old.
Awesome parenting, Jenny!
This looks like the action of a desperate woman who knows her looks are going and is putting it all out there…for what? Just what is she trying to accomplish here??? Does she think she’s “hot” she just looks like an over made-up whore!! Very sad..not that I like her much anyway, with all her past actions but she should realise that her looks,her overt ‘sexiness’ and her flaunting do not mean that people will take her seriously as an actress,spokesperson or whatever it is that she now does! With all those ghastly,pumped up,plastic housewives around,it seems that these women think that this is the desired look to aspire to!! Yuck! Poor little Evan! This woman looks unlike any ‘Mummy’ I know!!
I actually thought she had a good boob job but they do look weird here.
Anyway, her comment the new 14 is disgusting. But she’s disgusting too.
This is not “dressing sexy”. This is dressing whorey.
You would think that by the age of 40, this woman would have figured out what makes her special and valuable, and not have to resort to flashing her body to distinguish herself.
I mean..I guess she probably looks “hot” by a lot of people’s standards but this is just so try-hard to me.
I always feel bad for her son.
My husband used to love her in the nineties. He walked by my computer one day while I was here at Celebitchy reading a post about her and said “OMG what has she done to her face???” He does not think she’s hot anymore at all.
Come on, I was trying to be nice! 😉
She’s sad. What’s she gonna do when she’s 60? This is all she has inside.
no matter what you think about showing a lot of skin in public, its so pathetic from a creative pov. wow, she dressed in lingerie. what has that to do with halloween?
Ugh…I just can’t…
Nothing wrong with being a cougar and owning it but she comes off as desperate. Not a good look or image for her.
This is desperate and gross.
I feel sick…
A cougar….wearing leopard spots? I mean come on. STOP GETTING YOUR ANIMALS PRINTS CONFUSED.
Gawd.
I love this comment.
No 15 year old I know has such rode-hard-looking implants.
Those are leopard spots. Cougars don’t have spots
i feel sorry for this old lady
When did Halloween become “Slutoween”? Remember back in the day when costumes were supposed to be scary? Wasn’t that the whole point?
She’s dangerously close to making Pam Anderson seem classy and not attention-whorey. Jeez, woman, enough already.
She’s pathetic.
I’m sure everyone else knows this but I just realized that Melissa McCarthy is her cousin. I wonder if it irks Jenny that Melissa has a waay better career, even though Jenny has the *looks* and people might assume that she would be more successful in hollywood?
Right on 🙂
This comment made my day. I’ve never liked Jenny McCarthy. She’s not a lady, just very crass and misinformed. I just never got the appeal. Thank god those childhood diseases didnt make a comeback.
Sorry Jenny from the block; 40 is the same old 40 no matter how you try to twist it.
You beat me to it.
I did not need to see that close up of her fake, orange, stretchmarked boobs!!
1- I had no idea Jenny McCarthy wasn’t yet 40. Oops
2- I liked her with Jim Carrey, she should return whoever that Jenny was.
3- “I’m having fun with me, myself, and I.” is a thing cat-ladies say.
4- The fuck is she wearing???
Her boobs look revolting in that get-up.
Great article! It’s women like this that make our husbands and boyfriends have that “wondering eye”, and we just love that don’t we ladies? Sleeze.
Oh gee. Yet ANOTHER picture of her with her mouth wide open and her wonky implants on display.
*yawn*
Her skin looks really sun-damaged.
Also, I’m 24 and I would wear a corset for Halloween (at my current age, not 40) if it was cute, and it fit my boobs, and I was also wearing pants, and the rest of my costume looked like an actual costume. Jenny fulfills none of these requirements.
BARF!!
Fake breasts gross me out. I can’t help but think about the skin tightly stretched like a drum over bags of ticking time-bombs of silicone, waiting to rupture and leak their chemical poison into the bloodstream.
And people believe that that’s sexy, ha ha.
Her picture should be put in the dictionary next to “ridiculous”.
Her attempt at this pathetic boob n’ ass schpeel is and always has been a bore. *YAWN*
ZOMG. 22 IS THE NEW FETUS.
What? Jenny, you’re being too subtle. What are you trying to do here?
Jesus. Nothing says ‘cougar’ like fake boobs and old lady hands.
Omg all the 35+ in Miami dress like this for Halloween. In not even kidding. Its gross.
She’s only 40? Really? Or is this her tenth time at 40?
Just goes to show that BIMBO comes in many ages and sizes.
40 is the new 15? Mentally for her, perhaps.
This lady’s cheese done slid off her cracker. Seriously. Wheel is spinning but the hamster’s dead.
I’m sorry but every time I see this woman I think of all the people she killed with all the vaccination BS. It’s painfully obvious to anyone that this is NOT the person you listen to for medical advice.
hypothetical friendship here-she shows up @ my house I say “oh I thought you were dressing up tonight” she poses “i am” & my reply “oh yeah duh the glasses! Ha good one what are you suppose to be?
Well she definitely has the mentality of a 15 year old. The rest of her is all used up.
Well I hope it all stays fine for you lot when you get to 40 because the number of restrictions you have for women of that age will make your lives difficult and depressing enough without trouble in them as well.
Well I hope it all stays fine for you lot when you get to 40 because the number of restrictions you have on women of that age will make your lives difficult and depressing enough without trouble in them as well.
Great foto shoot, cool outfit she is wearing, look really sexy
I think so too. If you’ve got it, flaunt it – especially at Halloween. Why not?
*sigh*
I really find it dismaying when older women try so desperately to prove their sexual prowess. There’s a lot to to be said for quiet confidence.
Conversely, I loathe when women make self-deprecating remarks regarding their age. My mother does this all the damn time and I’ve asked her to stop.
I always wonder how she’s going to explain all of this to her son.
I know Jenny from work and I adore her. You’d like her, too. She’s real and cool.
the lingerie costume thing is really, really lame.
Um no 40 is definitely not the new 15. Grandma needs to put the delusion down and have a rest. Jenny is heading fast into Madonna territory.
Ladies if you are 40+ you are biologically capable of producing a second generation of children. That is why people call 40+ folks granny instead of Mom. Live with it Jenny. You’re old now.
STFU You’re the only one alive calling 40 grandma.
While not perfect she is successfual and attractive and if you look like a grandma at 40 you are not.
Whatever happened to aging gracefully?